Improvement in bread-toasters



in a suitable handle, B.

UNITED STATEs PATENT OEEIoE WILLIAM CAMP, OF KIRKWOOD, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREAD-TOASTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,789, dated October 1874; applica-tion filed February 17, 1874.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known. that I, WILLIAM CAMP, of

' Kirkwood, in the county of St. Louis and .the toaster, such as main frame with legs, re-

volving frame, its prongs, and hand-lever, are

all formed of respective wires, and arranged with each other in the manner as will now more fully appear.

The drawing represents a perspective view of my improvement.

A is the body-frameof the device. formed ot' wire, bent so as to have the legs or standards a. and the bearing-holes a', respectively. The back of the frame A is fastened b is a third leg or standard, of Wire, also fastened to the handle B. The frame A, handle B, with legs, thus constitute the body of the device. Further,

, I provide the frame A with a revolving frame,

G. This similarly consists of wire, bent in the shape indicated in the figure, and adapted, by means of its twisted end bearings c, to fit when placed in the bearings a of the frame A and revolve in same, the object of making the frame O revolve being to adapt or readily adjust same, according to the fire, in the required position to make the toast. Hence, to operate the frame C, as required, I provide same This is with a hand-lever, D. The hand-lever D is of the construction and shape indicated in the iigure, having notches d tted to engage the frame part of A, as well as a projecting pin, d,in the handle. The series of notches d shown in the hand-lever is for the purpose of securing the revolving frame O in the different positions required and presented by the grate, stove, or iire. E are the prongs, to which the bread-slices are secured. These also consist of wires, bent or twisted to the top and lower rims presented by the revolving frame C, and terminatingwith the an gle-shaped prongs e, as indicated in the figure.

The operation of the device is therefore as follows:l The bread-slices are placed and held on the prongs e. By revolving the reel or fra-me O, and securing same in required inclination or position by means of the handle D, the device with bread is placed in front yof the fire. After the toast is properly completed on one side the operator reverses the reel C, and so as to present the other bread side to the fire to" be similarly toasted. V

What I claim is- The bread -toaster herein shown and described--that` is, its frame A, having legs a, and provided with a single revolving reel, O, having prongs E e, notched handle D, and handle B proper, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony of said vinvention I have hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM CAMP.

Witnesses: u

WILLIAM W. HERTHEL, GHAs. F. MEIsNER. 

